Published July 15, 2021 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Aceria granati

  • 1. . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran; E-mails: fbahirai @ yahoo. com, Shahriar. Jafari @ gmail. com & Jafari. s @ lu. ac. ir, J. shakarami 45 @ gmail. com
  • 2. . Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran; E-mail: prslotfollahy @ yahoo. com

Description

Aceria granati (Canestrini & Massalongo, 1894)

Material examined – This mite was collected on leaves of pomegranate trees (Punica granatum L.) (Lythraceae). The activity of this mite species lead to roll the edge of pomegranate leaves. 16 females and two males, Sarenjeh-ye Zivdar village, Poldokhtar County, 19 July 2017; 16 females and nine males, Tange-siab, Kuhdasht city, 15 July 2017; six females and one male, Sepid Dasht, 11 September 2017; 12 females and four males, Bisheh Waterfall, 6 July 2018; 34 females and 10 males, Bizhanvand village, Dore Chegeni city, 19 September 2018; Lorestan Province, Iran.

Remarks – Previous to our study, this species has been reported from Guilan (Hajizadeh et al. 2002) and Fars (Doryanizadeh et al. 2013) Provinces of Iran. This is a new record of this species from Lorestan Province.

Notes

Published as part of Bahirai, Fereshteh, Jafari, Shahriar, Lotfollahi, Parisa & Shakarami, Jahanshir, 2021, Eriophyoidea (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the Lorestan Province and first record of Aceria querci (Garnam, 1883) outside of the USA, pp. 111-119 in Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (1) on page 112, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v10i1.63306, http://zenodo.org/record/5037942

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References

  • Hajizadeh, J., Hosseini, R. & McMurtry, J. A. (2002) Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) associated with eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) in Guilan Province of Iran. International Journal of Acarology, 28 (4): 373 - 378.
  • Doryanizadeh, N., Akrami, M. A. & Kamali, H. (2013) Eriophyoidea (Acari: Trombidiformes; Prostigmata) fauna of Shiraz County, Iran. Persian Journal of Acarology, 2 (2): 331 - 334. DOI: 10.22073 / pja. v 2 i 2.10035